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416294

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date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Energy: Competition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, for what reasons she is not implementing the recommendation of the Competition and Markets Authority that Ofgem should be the single provider of a switching and comparison website for energy.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	8809
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p>The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published the Provisional Findings from their investigation into the energy markets in July alongside a notice of possible remedies to address the issues identified; their final report setting out their final remedies is not expected until December 2015. This Government remains committed to implementing the recommendations the CMA will set out in their Final Report.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 11/09/2015 13:43:11 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

416295

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Energy: Competition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether her Department has conducted research on one-stop-shop switching and comparison sites for energy in other advanced economies in order to inform its policies.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	8810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p>The Department routinely considers examples from other advanced economies in order to inform its policies. As part of the investigation into the energy markets, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has also identified different forms switching and comparison sites for energy can take in other advanced economies and is considering alternatives as part of their possible remedies. This Government is committed to implementing the recommendations the CMA will set out in their Final Report, expected in December 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 11/09/2015 13:44:06 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

416306

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Energy: Competition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps she is taking to make the retail energy market more transparent and facilitate greater consumer choice.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	8561
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p>We have taken steps to increase competition in domestic retail market and there are now 31 suppliers providing choice to consumers, up from 13 in 2010. The Department has also supported work to make the market more transparent. We provided legislative backing to Ofgem’s retail market reforms to make the market simpler, clearer, and fairer, and have committed to implementing the recommendation formal remedies to be set out in the Final Report of the Competition and Market Authority’s investigation into the energy market.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 11/09/2015 09:06:48 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook